GW 12 Results – Saturday

It’s Saturday night, the time for first intermediate results for GW12. I take a look at 2 samples: randomly selected 20,000 FPL teams and the top 10,000 FPL teams. The law of large numbers ensures that we can make inferences about the overall FPL league based on the statistics for the random sample.

SUMMARY

• 7 games out of 10 have finished, 7.4 players out of 12 per average team have played. In the top 10K, the results are higher, but there are less players left to play.  Only around a half of all teams had their captains play today.

	Random Sample	Top 10K
Number of Managers	20,000	10,000
GW12 Average Score	36.3	42.2
Average Points Deducted for Point Hits	0.7	0.7
Players Played per Team (out of 12)	7.4	8.3
Captains Played	51.9%	61.6%

AVERAGE POINTS PER TEAM BY SOURCE OF POINTS

• Minutes played have been the biggest source of points today, but their proportion in the average score has declined by almost 10% comparing to GW11. GW 12 looks like a high-scoring GW so far with almost 30% of points coming for goals scored.

	Random Sample		Top 10K
Source of Points	Points	% of the Average	Points	% of the Average
Minutes Played	13.6	37.6%	15.4	36.5%
Goals Scored	10.5	28.10%	12.3	29.1%
Assists	3.9	10.9%	6.9	16.3%
Clean Sheet Points	5.3	14.6%	4.9	11.5%
Goals Conceded	-1.6	-4.4%	-1.8	-4.2%
Own Goals and Penalty Misses	-0.0	0.0%	0.0	0.0%
Red and Yellow Cards	-1.0	-2.8%	-1.8	-4.2%
Saves and Penalty Saves	1.1	3.2%	1.3	3.2%
Bonus Points	4.3	11.9%	5.0	11.8%
TOTAL	36.2	100.0%	42.2	100.0%

10 PLAYERS CONTRIBUTING THE MOST TO THE AVERAGE

• A lot of popular attacking players performed well today. Suarez, Sturridge and Giroud were the 3 most popular captain picks who played today and all of them delivered. Lukaku has recently lost a lot of owners, but his ownership is still high enough to add 2.7 points to the global average.
• Top 10K had the same heroes, but in a different order. Luiz Suárez scored 11.8 points per average team in the top 10K.  This corresponds to over a quarter of an average player’s score. 18.5% of the managers in this sample bought Remy before this GW, 9.6% captained him. He didn’t disappoint having scored 9 points, or 3.0 points per team on average.

Random Sample					Top 10K
Player	GW Points	Per Average Team	% of the Average		Player	GW Points	Per Average Team	% of the Average
Giroud	13	4.5	12.4%		Suárez	9	11.8	27.9%
Suárez	9	4.0	11.1%		Giroud	13	3.3	7.8%
Lukaku	13	2.7	7.4%		Remy	9	3.0	7.1%
Oscar	13	2.2	6.1%		Ramsey	3	2.7	6.4%
Sturridge	6	2.2	6.1%		Hazard	10	2.3	5.5%
Hazard	10	1.9	5.2%		Oscar	13	2.3	5.4%
Ramsey	3	1.8	4.9%		Lukaku	13	2.2	5.2%
Remy	9	1.7	4.6%		Mertesacker	11	1.7	4.1%
Mertesacker	11	1.4	3.9%		Mignolet	4	1.6	3.8%
Ivanovic	6	1.4	3.8%		Sturridge	6	1.5	3.7%

AVERAGE POINTS PER TEAM BY LINE IN FORMATION

• Forwards are doing extremely well once again having already scored 15.7 points on average. With RvP, Aguero, Rooney yet to play this week, they will definitely beat their last week’s 18 points.
• This week is a rare one for this season when midfielders outscore defenders. Everton and Southampton defenders are the most popular in the game and they disappointed their owners today.

	Random Sample		Top 10K
Line in Formation	Points	% of the Average	Points	% of the Average
Goalkeeper	3.0	8.2%	2.8	6.7%
Defenders	6.2	17.0%	5.8	13.6%
Midfielders	11.4	31.6%	11.6	27.6%
Forwards	15.7	43.3%	22.0	52.1%
Points for Captain	7.7	21.3%	10.5	24.9%
Points on the Bench	4.8	13.3%	3.8	8.9%
TOTAL	36.2	100.0%	42.2	100.0%

AVERAGE POINTS BY POSITION

	Random Sample	Top 10K
Position	Points	Points
Goalkeeper	3.8	3.4
Defender	3.0	2.7
Midfielder	4.1	4.0
Forward	8.4	9.1
(*) This table only accounts for players who have played positive minutes this week

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